Elon Musk and company’s apparent desire to suck up as much personal information as they can about Americans has hit another snag. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction that will at least temporarily prevent staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on millions of Americans while working within […]
Social Security Admin Reportedly Moving All Communication to X, the Everything App
The Social Security Administration backed off its plan to cut phone services, but it’s still taking steps to limit the ways that people will be able to access information about the essential agency. The SSA plans to stop issuing communications through normal channels like press releases and will instead make statements exclusively on X. According […]
Social Security Website Crashes Blamed on DOGE Software Update
Elon Musk’s war on fraud and abuse has impacted the Social Security Administration’s ability to distribute payments, according to a new report. In particular, frequent outages of the agency’s website in recent weeks have been linked to its expansion of fraud checks earlier in the claims process. From the Washington Post: The network crashes appear […]
DOGE Orders Layoffs at Social Security, Plans to Gut IT Team as Website Continually Breaks: Report
Despite Trump’s promises not to touch Social Security, Elon Musk’s DOGE has asked for serious cuts to the agency. Critics have accused the billionaire and his team of attempting to cripple America’s retirement system. Now, a new report states that, per DOGE’s orders, the Social Security Administration has plans to fire “potentially thousands” of staffers […]
DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just ‘a Few Months’: Report
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems from the COBOL programming language to something more modern, according to a new report from Wired. And while it’s not yet clear what Musk’s band of dipshits plans to do exactly, Wired reports they aim to do it […]
U.S. Says Social Security Recipients Need to Visit Offices to Get Benefits as DOGE Closes Offices Nationwide
As Elon Musk’s DOGE targets the Social Security Administration for cuts and reorganization, the agency is rolling out new rules for benefit recipients that could spur chaos and dysfunction at the agency. This week, the agency announced that it will no longer allow new benefit recipients to verify their identities over the phone. Instead, those […]
‘I’m the Villain’: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
Since the arrival of a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Social Security is in a far more precarious place than has been widely understood, according to Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration. “I don’t want the system to collapse,” Dudek said in a closed-door meeting last week, according […]